AshTurner
- Production designer
Ash Turner is a production designer and art director with over 20 year's experience contributing to award-winning features and television dramas, plus short films, commercials and live events. His work includes design for the films Snakeskin, A Song of Good, and Planet Man, as well as award-winning TV drama Ngā Tohu: Signatures.
Screenography
Biography
Production designer and art director Ash Turner has worked on a wide range of films and television programmes, as well as commercials and live events.
Turner began his career as a graphic designer and photographer. At New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch, he was initially undecided about specialising in production design or cinematography. A job as a set dresser on his first feature project, goldmining classic Illustrious Energy (1988) helped him decide which direction to take — as did opportunities working in the art department of early mentor Sigmund Spath Senior.
Awards
2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Technical Contribution - Film (for his Production Design): for A Song of Good
2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Best Technical Contribution to a Short Film (for his Design): for No Ordinary Sun
“From a design point of view his work was fantastic, quite mesmerising ... he really has got incredible creative flair.”